The best Wilbur Mack’s comedy movies

Wilbur Mack

Wilbur Mack

29/07/1873- 14/03/1964
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Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1947
  • Character: Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1953
  • Character: Party Guest at Ball (uncredited)
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Man in Audience
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Angel on My Shoulder

Angel on My Shoulder
6.8/10
Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr's special effects Hell, where Nick/The Devil sees that he is an-exact double for a judge of whom Nick doesn't approve. Eddie is agreeable to having his soul transferred to the judge's body, as it will give him a chance to avenge himself on his killer. But every action taken by Eddie (as the judge) results in good rather than evil and, to Nick's dismay, the reputation and influence of the judge is enhanced, rather than impaired by Eddie. And Eddie also falls in love with the judge's fiancée, Barbara. Even Eddie's planned revenge fails and Nick is forced to concede defeat. He returns to Hell, taking Eddie with him, after Eddie has extracted his promise that Nick will not molest the judge or Barbara in the future.

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
7/10
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die
5.5/10
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/11/1943
  • Character: Sidewalk Passerby
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

The Chief

The Chief
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1933
  • Character: Man at Alderman Meeting
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Rio Rita

Rio Rita
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1942
  • Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Rhubarb

Rhubarb
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 29/08/1951
  • Character: Golfer (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiacee Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat
5.9/10
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

Half a Sinner

Half a Sinner
6.3/10
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.

I Live My Life

I Live My Life
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1935
  • Character: Bridge Game Onlooker (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

The Gay Bride

The Gay Bride
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/12/1934
  • Character: Banker (uncredited)
Mary wants to marriy a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

Up the River

Up the River
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1930
  • Character: Honest John Jessup (uncredited)
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.

Manhattan Parade

Manhattan Parade
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1931
  • Character: Doctor
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Remote Control

Remote Control
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1930
  • Character: Chief of Police
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

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